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Adela Hernandez elected to municipal government Caibarien, Villa Clara, Cuba.

Sarah Brown,
Liberal Democrat Councillor in Cambridge spoke up for Out4Marriage
campaign. She and her wife were obliged to surrender their marriage and
instead have a civil partnership. IOS Pink List, 34.

Celebrities

Bülent Ersoy claimed that she had once met the iconic left-wing activist Deniz Gezmis.
His lawyer denounced her for saying it, "he was against such people of
lower morals". The press was critical of such 'traditionalism' on the
left. The lawyer then apologized by identifying with the Raoul character
in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, who likewise was initially intolerant of the queer character.

Camille Paglia:
“I identify strongly with drag queens and transsexuals, particularly as
they were in the '60s. They were fierce and powerful. They were street
warriors,” she says. “Some might have had bits and pieces of surgery.
But the focus now is on 'transgender,’ which has gotten rigidly
ideological. ... My point is that the transgender movement’s focus on
manipulating the physical, through surgery, is too often a way of
avoiding introspection. We have an obligation as human beings to engage
in self-examination – to seek self-understanding, apart from the social
and the physical. Youth are falling into a trap of thinking that sex
change will solve their deeper problems – their spiritual problems. But
it can’t.”

Chaz Bono, was honoured with the trophies for outstanding documentary programme, and the Stephen F. Kolzak award at the 23rd annual Media Awards by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Bono did fundraising for Democratic candidates, but also for Republican Mary Bono Mack, his step mother.

David O. Russell, film director, was reported for fondling the breasts of his trans niece. However no charges were filed.

Janet Jackson announced that she will be the executive producer of a documentary film on trans lives.

John Travolta. The National Enquirer published photos purporting to be Travolta in drag in 1997.

Jonathan Ross, on his ITV show 21 January made a silly joke about Thai Airlines trans stewardesses, and apologized on Twitter.

Madonna:
Nine anti-gay activists from the Trade Union of Russian Citizens
claimed that she 'brutally violated' a city law that imposes fines for
spreading homosexual 'propaganda' during a concert in St Petersberg. The
judge threw out the case after being shown footage of the concert. 'How
many families split up because one of the couple is gay?' asked Judge
Vitaly Barkovsky. 'And how many because of alcoholism? How many lawsuits
have you filed against alcohol companies?'

Sports

The IOC announced that women who test in the male range for testosterone, and whose bodies respond to the hormone, may not be eligible to compete as females.
The third Olympics since the Stockholm Consensus on Sex Reassignment in Sports. However almost no trans athletes qualified.

Brooke Fantelli, off-road racer, was doing a photo shoot in the California desert when a Bureau of Land Management ranger checked papers, took offence that Fantelli was trans and ended up tasering her in the groin. She has now filed a federal lawsuit.

Caster Semenya led South African team in the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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About Zagria

I have a social science degree. I spent several years in the 70s doing Gay Lib counselling, and moved on to organizing trans groups. I was rejected by the Clarke Institute (now CAMH) in the mid 1980s, probably because I do not match either of their stereotypes, but was accepted by Russel Reid on our first meeting in late 1987, and had surgery from James Dalrymple some months later. I have mainly worked as an IT consultant. I have been with the same husband for 45 years.